The Washington bee., 1887-05-21
THE CORRUPT SOUTH.
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THE CORRUPT SOUTH.
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bat we know of no method to ar.
que away or force down what may
be called the cast of color. 81 do
not agree with the learned devine
for since the reconstruction of the
Union, the South has never tried
to bind the Negro in chains. But
some have burst their bands as
sunder, aud walked away.
However will push along, as the
color line is not the question at is
sue, will answer you at a more
pleasing date.
The South since 1865, has, ever
entertained the same old idea of
the Negro, that we will hold you
and cram in the spoils. But anoth-
er day has dawned and with it
another generation has sprung up
bringing with it the words of
right aud justice written on their
hearts. Such an important ques
tion should be announced from
the pulpit. 1t should be carried
into silent meditation, and acted
upon at once. Do you think, if we
were any other race, but the Ne
gro, and being situated in the
South, an we are, that your Gov
at Washington would suffer race
to be butchered, daily as we are
No, why not protect US, as we'll as,
the Chinaman?
The last race on Gods earth.
Now, you see in the Negro race a
prominence which is fast coming
into notice, and you say among
yourselves let him die a horrid
death. No truer sentiment, could
not have come from the South,
than that above. Some say we
will pray, and hope for a change
ALI very good, God doesn't say
pray and stand still, but he re
quires us to make a persistent ef-
fJrt to help ourselves. "Whoso-
ever shedeth mans blood by man
shall his blood be shed.D If they
cause your blood to be shed, then
retaliate, and let the two streams
flow together. If the head of your
Government at Washington be
vitiated what must we think of
the little streams that issue there
FROM ere they reach modern Naza-
reth the silent South. We who
have the Negro at heart let him
peruse carefully the administration
of Abraham Lincoln, from March
4th 1861, to that of Grover Cleve-
land, and yOn will not find during
those twenty-six years, that half
so many cOlOred men have been
lynched, as during the present
administration.
And not a word has he said,
either pro or con. Since he thinks
it is not expedient, we deem it most
essential to protect ourselves. And
we will do it, if through blood we
wade. "Mine ear is panied, my
soul is sick with every days report
of wrong and outrage with which
the earth is filed" But as the times
change we change with it. And
hence, glad news greets us from
Berea Kentucky, stating that a
colored man has been protected
from a mob, by the speedy action
of the Mayor of the above name
Town. Something worthy of note in
the history Of Kentucky. The
law is all right, the order of protec-
tiOn comes from the execution of
the law, and by it the violent,
and thirsty mob, that assembled
in the town just named, was soon
quelled by the calling out of the
State Malitia, and the gatling
guns. Long live the Mayor, and
may his in life ever be for right
and justice, without regard, for
what may be called the cast of
color. However L must Lot tarry.
Do you tell me that in state like
South Carolina, where the colored
people out number the whites by
two that they cannot protect them
selves? No, If you my friends have
not that pluck and energy which
every true, and honest citizen of
the United States should have for
the protection of his life, I cannot
give it to you; | can only inspire
you to use your manhood, and
that at once. Dear friends will
it be for our children if we leave
this question for their inheritance.
Yes, the sticking point is coming.
The reason that the Negro vote is
divided to day in the North, and
South, is that the Republican party